Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Dawn in Snow, Nihonbashi Station, By Keisai Eisen, Edo period, 19th century
Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room 10
July 26, 2011 (Tue) - August 21, 2011 (Sun)
Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway, a series of ukiyo-e works by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige, consists of 70 prints created of scenes at the post stations from Nihonbashi (in present-day Tokyo) to Otsu (in present-day Shiga Prefecture). Along with Hiroshige’s Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido it is an excellent example of ukiyo-e color woodblock prints that depict life on the roads of Edo-period Japan. The entire series will be exhibited in this gallery in two parts. The first 35 prints, created for the highway from Nihonbashi to Narai Station (in present-day Nagano Prefecture), are currently on display.
Exhibit includes:
Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Dawn in Snow, Nihonbashi Station, By Keisai Eisen, Edo period, 19th century
Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Karuizawa, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century
Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Distant View of Mount Asama from Oiwake Station, By Keisai Eisen, Edo period, 19th century
Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaido Highway: Seba, By Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 19th century